Coleman (Proposal)

Contact Information

Ben Coleman (FIXME email captcha)

Matt Lang (FIXME eail captcha)

Mathematics and Computer Science Department

Moravian College

Bethlehem, PA

Proposed Activities

• Why should you work on an Open Source project? What do you want to do when you graduate? Why should someone hire you when you graduate? Draft version: Career Planning

• History and Context of Open Source

- Bazaar
- History of FOSS
- Next Time Fail Better

• Overview of OpenMRS

- Google talk
- Getting Started web pages

• Getting up to speed on technologies:

- Git and a github account
- OpenMRS ID
- Eclipse setup
- Scrum
- Maven
- JIRA
- Swing
- Hibernate

• How to solve problems: Google, project documentation, IRC log, asking the community. Documentation for future users.

• Learning about the development community

- Attend a weekly developer's meeting
- Attend a Daily Scrum meeting
- Write journal entry about experiences

• The process to handle a bug. Draft Version: OpenMRS.Ticket